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...Angelo Dalla Santa, a former Harvard dining hall manager accused of trafficking 300 pounds of marijuana worth $500,000, asked a Middlesex Superior Court judge yesterday to exclude some evidence from his trial...
...West) pursues a drug kingpin in the Baltimore projects, he's undermined by higher-ups who want quick, low-level "buy and bust" stings to generate p.r., not the painstaking investigation required to ensnare the bosses. The series also plumbs the Byzantine world of the criminals, focusing on D'Angelo Barksdale (Larry Gilliard Jr.), a midlevel captain who wants to rise in his organization but questions its pointless violence. The two men are enemies, yet both, says Simon, are "middle managers ... in a world where everybody's working for Enron. Whatever you commit to as an institution bigger than yourself...
...Wire sometimes oversells this point, as when D'Angelo teaches his crew members chess to show that they're pawns in a game (chess metaphors are always a reliable DIDACTICISM ahead sign). But it slowly develops into an engrossing look at the methodical nature of police work and the limits of individualism. Cop dramas are dispatches on America's relationship to authority, and like The Shield, The Wire is a daring and timely one. We responded to 9/11 with a national narrative of teamwork: unite behind our institutions, and let's roll. (Waco? Diallo? Old news.) The rhetoric of good...
...Angelo Dalla Santa, then manager of the Lowell and Winthrop House dining halls, was arrested on Nov. 20 for allegedly trafficking 300 pounds of marijuana that authorities estimate is worth about...
...Angelo Melino, a visiting professor in the economics department from the University of Toronto, says a business program does not necessarily offer students anything better than a liberal arts education...